Lockdown gave us plenty of time to reflect upon what was important and spend lots of time together with our wonderful dog… Sir Woofy Woofington (of which you’ll hear a lot more about later.)

 

Always a beer lover, Stewart has made it his life’s work to try as many different beers as he can. With an impressive historical record on Untapped a love or beer metamorphosed into an interest in the brewing process, the science of flavours and how to produce the perfect craft pint. 

 

It started as most do with a home brew kit, an airing cupboard and rather conveniently, a downstairs bathroom. Over time the kit expanded and with the purchase of our first Grainfather … the spare bedroom brewery was born. Out went the bed, in went a fermenter, a Grainfather and a Glycol chiller which hummed incessantly and from which shone out a very bright blue light.

 

Brewing days involved filling the Grainfather via a hose through the bedroom window over the kitchen flat roof below, incredibly careful sparging to avoid spillages on the carpet and lots and lots of running up and down the narrow twisting stairs of a little Cotswold cottage. The evenings were then spent hosing down the kit and cleaning it on the front lawn. 

 

Meanwhile the branding was being born. Stewart’s white and tan boxer dog Sunny, had become affectionately known as Woofy, or Sir Woofy Woofington (due to his superior tastes). Over time Sunny started to respond to ‘Woofy’ and in the long days of lockdown the trio of Stewart, Imogen and Woofy hatched a plan. 

 

On a little trip over to Chipping Campden in a brief lockdown thaw, over a coffee Sir Woofy Woofingtons was born as a company and we registered it there and then. 

 

Not a graphic designer, Imogen took to Canva to create our very first labels and Woofy’s Brewery was born. Woofy was now our muse.

 

Our first beer to be perfected was Woofy’s Session IPA.